How could I have known Bob Hoover and I would walk along a wooded path chatting casually like old friends? Or that I would literally bump into Apollo 8 commander Frank Borman while prowling the hangars of a local airport?
Imperfect is okay
If we set our personal expectations at perfection, we’re really working against our own best interests. The effort to give a perfect performance becomes counter-productive. This may transform a challenging goal into an impossible dream.
The luckiest days of the year
Imagine if every member of your EAA chapter, your pilot association, or your coffee klatch pitched in the cost of one hour of flight time to establish a scholarship to help local kids learn to fly.
Misinformation, miscommunication, and just plain wrong
What do you believe? And when you answer that question, consider how sure are you the answer you give is based on a truth rather than an opinion.
The gift of flight
What if your significant other, your child, or your best friend found they’d been gifted with an opportunity to fly?
The Age of Discovery never ends
All of us who fly have been verbally battered by those who are too constrained in their own thinking to see a bigger, better life for themselves.
I believe, therefore, I can’t
It’s time to do away with the preconceived notion of not being able to solve our own problems.
Life really is all about perspective
The gift of flight, the willingness to confront a challenge and overcome it, is far more important than simply achieving the altitude to have a better view.
The wind will blow
“Probably” should never have a place in your flight planning process.